PostgreSQL Job Trends in Berkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 90 91
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +55
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 43 46 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.21% 1.90% 2.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.12% 12.04% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 28
10th Percentile £41,750 - £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £70,625
90th Percentile - £99,000 £86,125
South East median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -8.70% -11.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 425 382 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.79% 15.78% 25.65%
Number of salaries quoted 120 176 331
10th Percentile £40,050 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,391 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,184 £67,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.50% +5.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +36 43 £72,500 -6.45% 3
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) JBoss
1 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 33 (76.74%) Amazon ECS
2 33 (76.74%) Amazon EKS
2 33 (76.74%) Serverless
3 31 (72.09%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.95%) AWS KMS
7 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (11.63%) Route 53
8 1 (2.33%) Azure
8 1 (2.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (76.74%) Relational Database
2 24 (55.81%) RDBMS
3 7 (16.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (13.95%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (95.35%) Jenkins
2 39 (90.70%) JUnit
3 31 (72.09%) Mockito
4 24 (55.81%) JMeter
5 16 (37.21%) Git
6 8 (18.60%) Maven
7 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
8 6 (13.95%) DbUnit
8 6 (13.95%) jMock
9 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (6.98%) JIRA
General
1 38 (88.37%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (97.67%) Developer
2 40 (93.02%) Java Developer
3 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (34.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (20.93%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 5 (11.63%) Lead Developer
6 5 (11.63%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Developer
8 1 (2.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (95.35%) Spring
2 40 (93.02%) Spring Boot
2 40 (93.02%) Web Services
3 38 (88.37%) REST
4 32 (74.42%) ActiveMQ
5 31 (72.09%) Apache Camel
5 31 (72.09%) Hibernate
6 24 (55.81%) HTML
6 24 (55.81%) jQuery
6 24 (55.81%) WireMock
7 17 (39.53%) JSON
7 17 (39.53%) XML
8 15 (34.88%) SOAP
9 14 (32.56%) RESTful
10 8 (18.60%) AngularJS
10 8 (18.60%) JPA
11 7 (16.28%) Bootstrap
11 7 (16.28%) J2EE
12 6 (13.95%) Spring Batch
12 6 (13.95%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 36 (83.72%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Agile
2 42 (97.67%) Microservices
3 41 (95.35%) TDD
4 37 (86.05%) BDD
5 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
6 24 (55.81%) Process Management
6 24 (55.81%) Scrum
6 24 (55.81%) Workflow
7 21 (48.84%) Kanban
8 18 (41.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (25.58%) DevOps
10 10 (23.26%) SDLC
11 7 (16.28%) Architectural Design
11 7 (16.28%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
12 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (13.95%) Open Source
13 3 (6.98%) Decision-Making
13 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (95.35%) Java
2 27 (62.79%) JavaScript
3 25 (58.14%) Python
4 24 (55.81%) Shell Script
5 5 (11.63%) SQL
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (95.35%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (79.07%) Kubernetes
2 24 (55.81%) Kibana
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) Dynatrace
1 24 (55.81%) Splunk
2 5 (11.63%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.98%) Jaspersoft